"carrion beetle" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: carrion beetles [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} carrion beetle (plural carrion beetles)
  1. sexton beetle; necrophore Categories (lifeform): Staphylinoid beetles Translations (A necrophore): 埋葬蟲 /埋葬虫 (máizàngchóng) (Chinese Mandarin), Aaskäfer [masculine] (German), өлексе жегіш (ölekse jegış) (Kazakh)

Inflected forms

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